/lit/ - Literature

>>23195803
Cyberpunk, as an aesthetic, goes back further that. See, the artwork of Moebius.
Cyberpunk is basically about information technology and urban cultural decline. Arguably, it's not just computers, but artificial minds and intelligences. PKD incorporates this heavily into his other book, Ubik. Everyday appliances are personified as homeostatic entities. Technology is almost always proliferated in these settings, because they're about the mundane circumstances of culture as high-winded sci fi.

If you ever happen to read old pulp stories, it's clear many ideas solidified by novelists and film-makers were originated there. Even though they precede the information revolution and the birth of computers, they're quite imaginative, though not strong as literature, and maybe they prefigure a lot of modern cyberpunk, "space operas," and other fantasy works. A lot of writers got started in these evolving pulps. Arthur C Clarke, Bradbury, PKD. Unfortunately, many pulp authors will remain obscure, despite some obvious superiority in creativity.
I'd recommend reading some old pulps for that grungy low-fi science fiction feeling. Though not in the public domain, they are often in open archives.